Chapter X: =Xariffa.= See Townsend, Mrs (2)

=Blair, Henry William.= _N. H._, 1834- ----. A lawyer and congressman of Manchester, New Hampshire. His wife, Mrs. E. N. Blair, is mentioned on page 29. The Temperance Movement, or the Conflict of Man with Alcohol.

=Blaisdell, Albert Franklin.= _N. H._, 1847- ----. A retired physician and surgeon of Boston, whose later years have been given to educational writing. Outlines for the Study of English Classics; First Steps with English and American Authors; Our Bodies and How we Live; How to Keep Well; Child’s Book of Health; Stories of the Civil War; Readings from the Waverley Novels; Stories from English History; Practical Physiology; The Story of American History. _Gi. Le._

=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= _Md._, 1856- ----. A Philadelphia writer of juvenile tales. A Girl of ’76; An Independent Daughter; Kittyboy’s Christmas; Thy Friend Dorothy; Girls Together; As Others See Us; Betty of Wye; Taking a Stand; Miss Vanity; Life’s Little Actions; A Dear Little Girl; Three Pretty Maids; Two Girls; Twenty Little Maidens; A Sweet Little Maid; A Revolutionary Maid; Because of Conscience; Dimple Dallas; Her Very Best; Mabel’s Mishap; A Daughter of Freedom; A Heroine of 1812; A Loyal Lass. _Lip. We._

=Blanchard, Rufus.= _N. H._, 1821-1904. A cartographer of Chicago. History of Illinois; Political History of the United States; History of the Northwest and City of Chicago.

=Blashfield, Edwin Howland.= N. Y., 1848- ----. An artist of New York city. Italian Cities (with E. W. Blashfield). _Scr._

=Blatchford, Willis Stanley.= _Ct._, 1859- ----. A naturalist, State geologist of Indiana, from 1894. Gleanings from Nature; A Nature Wooing.

=Bleecker, Mrs. Ann Eliza [Schuyler].= _N. Y._, 1752-1783. A verse-writer of New York city whose Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse were issued in 1793.

=Bliss, Edwin Munsell.= _Ty._, 1848- ----. A Presbyterian theologian. Encyclopedia of Missions; The Turk in Armenia, Crete and Greece; Concise History of Missions.

=Bliss, Frederick Jones.= _Sa._, 1859- ----. Son of D. Bliss (page 30). An explorer to the Palestine Exploration Fund. A Mound of Many Cities; Excavations at Jerusalem, 1894-97.

=Bliss, George.= _Ms._, 1830-1897. A prominent lawyer of New York city. Treatise on the Law of Life Insurance; Annotated Edition of the New York Code of Civil Procedure, usually styled “Bliss’s Code.”

=Bliss, William Julian Albert.= _D. C._, 1867- ----. A physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University. A Manual of Experiments in Physics (with Ames).

=Blitz, Antonio= (pseud.). _E._, 1810-1877. A once famous prestidigitateur whose home was in Philadelphia. Fifty Years in the Magic Circle.

=Block, Louis James.= 1851- ----. A Chicago educator. Exile, a Dramatic Episode; Dramatic Sketches and Poems; The New World, with Other Verse; Capriccios. _Put._

=Blodgett, Mrs. Mabel [Fuller].= _Me._, 1869- ----. A writer of Brookline, Massachusetts. The Aspen Shade, a novel; Fairy Tales; In Poppy Land, a book of fairy tales; At the Queen’s Mercy, a tale of adventure.

=Bloodgood, Freeman A----.= _Ia._, 1867- ----. An Iowa Superintendent of Schools. Civil Government and School Law.

=Bloodgood, Simeon DeWitt.= _N. Y._, 1799-1866. The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution; Treatise of Roads.

=Bloomer, Mrs. Amelia [Jenks].= _N. Y._, 1818-1894. A noted reformer of Council Bluffs, long prominent in behalf of woman-suffrage. In 1895 the Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer were published, edited by her husband.

=Bloomingdale, Charles.= _Pa._, 1868- ----. A journalist of Philadelphia. Mr., Miss, and Mrs.; Whiffs from Bohemia; A Failure. _Lip._

=Blossom, Henry Martyn.= _Mo._, 1866- ----. A St. Louis littérateur. The Documents in Evidence; Checkers: a Hard Luck Story; Room 4: Stories.

=Blunt, Stanhope English.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. A colonel in the ordnance department of the United States army. Firing Regulations for Small Arms; Instructions in Rifle and Carbine Firing in the United States Army. _Scr._

=Boardman, George Nye.= _Vt._, 1823- ----. A Congregational clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Chicago Seminary, 1871-93, and emeritus professor from 1893. Lectures on Natural Theology; The Will and Virtue; Congregationalism; A History of New England Theology; Regeneration. _Ran._

=Boardman, William Henry.= _Il._, 1846- ----. An editor and publisher of New York. The Lovers of the Woods.

=Boas, Franz.= _Wa._, 1858- ----. An anthropologist. Baffin Land; The Central Eskimo.

=Bödecker, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm.= _G._, 1846- ----. A dentist of New York city. The Anatomy and Pathology of the Teeth.

=Body, Charles William Edmund=. _E._, 1851- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, of New York, professor of Old Testament literature in the General Theological Seminary from 1894. The Permanent Value of Genesis. _Lgs._

=Bogart, Elizabeth.= “Estelle.” _N. Y._, _c._ 1806-18--. A nearly forgotten verse-writer of New York city whose lines were very popular in their day. Her earliest poems appeared in 1825, and some thirty years later a volume of her fugitive verse was published entitled Driftings from the Stream of Life.

=Bogue, Mrs. Lilian [Bell].= _See Bell, Lilian_ (page 24).

=Boies, Henry Martyn.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. An inventor of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Prisoners and Paupers; The Science of Penology. _Put._

=Boise= (boiz), =James Robinson.= _Ms._, 1815-1895. A professor of Greek at Chicago University, 1868-95. Notes on the Greek Text of Paul’s Epistles to Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians; Notes to Greek Text of Galatians and Romans.

=Boise, Otis Bardwell.= _O._, 1844- ----. A composer. Harmony Made Practical; Music and its Masters.

=Bolles, John Augustus.= _Ct._, 1809-1878. A Boston lawyer. Treatise on Usury and Usury Laws; Essay on a Congress of Nations.

=Bolton, Charles Edward.= _Ms._, 1841-1901. A lecturer, and writer upon economic reforms, long resident at Cleveland. His wife, Mrs. S. K. Bolton, is mentioned on page 32, and his son, C. K. Bolton, on page 30. A Few Civic Problems; A Model Village and Other Papers.

=Bolton, Mrs. Ethel [Stanwood].= _Ms._, 1873- ----. Wife of C. K. Bolton (page 31) and daughter of E. Stanwood (page 357). A genealogist of Brookline, Massachusetts. History of the Stanwood Family (1899).

=Bombaugh, Charles Carroll.= _Pa._, 1828- ----. A journalist of Baltimore, formerly a practising physician. Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature; Book of Blunders (edited); The Literature of Kissing; Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Insurance Companies.

=Bompiani, Mrs. Sophia Van Matre.= _O._, 1835- ----. A writer long resident in Rome, Italy. Italian Explorers in Africa; A Short History of the Italian Waldenses.

=Bonsal, Stephen.= _Md._, 1863- ----. A journalist of New York city, special correspondent of the New York Herald in Cuba and elsewhere, and secretary of the United States Legations in Peking, Madrid, and Tokio, 1890-95. Morocco as It Is; The Condition of Cuba; The Fight for Santiago; The Golden Horseshoe, a novel of the Philippine War. _Dou. Har._

=Book, John William.= _Ind._, 1850- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman of prominence in Indiana. Short Line to the Roman Catholic Church; Side Switches of the Short Line (with T. J. Jenkins); Thousand and One Objections to Secret Societies; Mollie’s Mistake, or Mixed Marriages; The Book of Books.

=Bookwalter, John Wesley.= _Ind._, 1837- ----. A manufacturer at Springfield, Ohio. If not Silver, What? Siberia and Central Asia. _Sto._

=Boone, Charles Theodore.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A lawyer of San Francisco. Law of Corporations; Law of Real Property; Law of Mortgages; Code Pleading; Banks and Banking; Test Book of Law and Practice.

=Boone, Richard Gause.= Cincinnati superintendent of schools from 1899. Education in the United States; History of Education in Indiana.

=Booth, James Curtis.= _Pa._, 1810-1888. A once noted chemist of Philadelphia, a smelting superintendent at the mint, 1849-88. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the State of Delaware (1841); Recent Improvements in the Chemical Arts (1852); Encyclopædia of Chemistry (with others).

=Booth, Mrs. Maud Ballington [Charlesworth].= _E._, 1865- ----. An evangelist, who with her husband founded the Volunteers of America, a religious military organization, in 1898. Branded; Look Up and Hope; Sleepy-Time Stories; Lights of Childland. _Put._

=Booth-Tucker, Frederick Saint George de Latour.= _E. I._, 1853- ----. The commander of the Salvation Army in the United States. The Life of Catherine Booth; Life of General William Booth; In Darkest India and the Way Out.

=Bosworth, Francke Huntington.= _O._, 1843- ----. A physician of New York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Nose and Throat; Text Book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat.

=Botsford, George Willis.= _Ia._, 1862- ----. A former instructor in history at Harvard University. The Development of the Athenian Constitution; A History of Greece; The Story of Rome; An Ancient History for Beginners; A History of the Orient and Greece. _Gi. Mac._

=Boucher, Jonathan.= _E._, 1738-1804. An Episcopal clergyman of Annapolis whose outspoken loyalty to the mother country in 1775 caused his expulsion from the colonies. He returned to England and became vicar of Epsom. A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (1797); Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1833); A Cumberland Man. _See Hawks’s Ecclesiastical History of the United States, vol. 2; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit, vol. 5; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 6; Lippincott’s Magazine, May, 1899; Tyler’s Literary History of the American Revolution, vol. 1._

=Bourne, Edward Gaylord.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A professor of history at Yale University from 1895. The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837; Essays in Historical Criticism; John Lothrop Motley. _Hou. Scr._

=Bourne, George.= _E._, 1780-1845. A clerical abolitionist of note. The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable; Lectures on Ecclesiastical History; Pictures of Quebec; Slavery Illustrated in its Effects upon Women.

=Boutell, Lewis Henry.= _Ms._, 1826-1899. A Chicago lawyer who wrote a Life of Roger Sherman. _Mg._

=Bouve, Mrs. Pauline Carrington [Rust].= _Ark._, 18-- - ----. A Boston writer. Their Shadows Before.

=Bowden, John.= _I._, 1751-1817. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence in his day, professor of belles-lettres at Columbia College, 1802-17. Essentials of Ordination; Apostolic Origin of Episcopacy; Observations on the Catholic Controversy.

=Bowdoin, William Goodrich.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. A writer of New York City. A Step Across the Gulf of Cuba; The Rise of the Book Plate; James MacNeill Whistler: the Man and His Work.

=Bowen, Clarence Winthrop.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Brooklyn publisher, Boundary Disputes of Connecticut; Woodstock, an Historical Sketch.

=Bowen, Eliza Andrews.= _Ga._, 1828-1898. Cousin of E. F. Andrews (page 10). A Georgia writer for periodicals and newspapers. Astronomy by Observation. _Ap._

=Bowen, Herbert Wolcott.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. Brother of C. W. Bowen, _supra_. A New York lawyer. United States minister to Venezuela from 1901. Verses; Losing Ground; In Divers Tones, a collection of verse; De Genere Humano; International Law.

=Bowen, John Wesley Edward.= _La._, 1855- ----. A Methodist clergyman, professor in Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, from 1888. Africa and the American Negro; The Catholic Spirit of Methodism; The Theology and Psychology of the Negro Plantation Melodies; An Apology for the Higher Education of the Negro.

=Bowman, Edward Morris.= _Vt._, 1848- ----. A professor of music at Vassar College from 1891. Harmony: Historic Points and Modern Methods; Formation of Piano Touch; Relation of Musicians to the Public.

=Bowser, Edward Albert.= _N. B._, 1845- ----. A professor of mathematics and engineering in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1870, and a mathematician of prominence. Analytic Geometry; Differential and Integral Calculus; Analytic Mechanics; Hydro-mechanics; Academic Algebra; College Algebra; Plane and Solid Geometry; Elements of Trigonometry; Treatise on Trigonometry; Logarithmic Tables; Treatise on Roofs and Bridges. _He. Vn._

=Boyd, Ellen Wright.= _Vt._, 1833- ----. An educator at Albany, principal of Saint Agnes’s School. Outlines of Religious Instruction; English Cathedrals; Famous Art Galleries.

=Boyer, Emanuel Roth.= _Pa._, 1857-1900. A Chicago educator. Text Book on Elementary Biology. _He._

=Boylan, Mrs. Grace [Duffie].= _Mch._, 1861- ----. A Chicago journalist. If Tam O’ Shanter’d Had a Wheel, and Other Poems; Kids of Many Colours; The Kiss of Glory, a novel; The Old House and Other Poems.

=Boyland, George Halsted.= _O._, 1845- ----. A physician who served in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian war and published Six Months under the Red Cross with the French Army.

=Boynton, Charles Brandon.= _Ms._, 1806-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman of Cincinnati. Journey Through Kansas (1855); The Russian Empire; The Four Great Powers; History of the American Navy During the Rebellion; Doctrines and Duties. _Ap._

=Boynton, Henry Van Ness.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. Son of C. B. Boynton, _supra_. A journalist of Washington city, brevetted brigadier-general for service in the Federal army during the Civil War. Sherman’s Historical Raid; Was General Thomas Slow at Nashville? The National Military Park; Chickamauga-Chattanooga. _Clke._

=Boynton, Henry Walcott.= _Conn._, 1869----. A writer of Andover, Massachusetts. Life of Washington Irving; The Golfer’s Rubáiyát; Journalism and Literature and Other Essays. _Hou._

=Brace, De Witt Bristol.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A professor of physics at the University of Nebraska from 1887. Laws of Radiation and Absorption.

=Braden, James Andrew.= _O._, 1872- ----. A journalist of Akron, Ohio. Far Past the Frontier; Connecticut Boys in the Western Reserve.

=Bradford, Gamaliel.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A Boston writer on political science. The Lesson of Popular Government; Types of American Character. _Mac._

=Bradford, Joseph.= _See Hunter, W. R._

=Bradley, John Edwin.= _Il._, 1830- ----. An educator, president of Illinois College from 1892. Science and Industry; Work and Play: Talks with Students; School Incentives; Healthfulness of Intellectual Pursuits; Unconscious Education.

=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= _Pa._, 1861- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. For Love of Country, a novel; Stephen Decatur, a brief biography; For the Freedom of the Sea; Heroes of Our Early Wars; Under Tops’ls and Tents; When Blades are Out and Love’s Afield; The Quiberon Touch; American Fights and Fighters; Reuben James; Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West; Hohenzollern; A Hazing Interregnum; In the Wasp’s Nest; Woven with the Ship; The Southerners; The Conquest of the Southwest; The Bishop; Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer; A Doctor of Philosophy; A Little Traitor to the South; The Corner in Coffee; Indian Fights and Fighters; The Records. _Dou. Lip. Scr. Sm._

=Bragg, William Chittenden.= _Mo._, 1845- ----. A lawyer of Saint Louis. Digest of Missouri Court of Appeals; Missouri Masonic Laws.

=Brain, Belle M----.= _O._, 1859- ----. An educator of Springfield, Ohio. Fuel for Missionary Fires; Weapons for Temperance Warfare; The Morning Watch; Quaint Thoughts of an Old Time Army Chaplain; The Transformation of Hawaii. _Rev._

=Braine, Robert D----.= _O._, 1861- ----. A musician of Springfield, Ohio. Messages from Mars, or the Strange Revelations of the Telescope Plant.

=Branch, Anna Hempstead.= _Ct._, 18-- - ----. A writer of New London, Connecticut; The Heart of the Road and Other Poems. _Hou._

=Brandenburg, Edwin Charles.= _D. C._, 1865- ----. A professor of law at Columbian University, Washington city. The Law of Bankruptcy; Digest of Bankruptcy Decisions. He is one of the editors of the supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States.

=Brannon, Henry.= _W. Va._, 1837- ----. A supreme court judge of West Virginia. Treatise on the Rights and Privileges Guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

=Brantley, William Theophilus.= _Ga._, 1852- ----. A lawyer of Baltimore. The Law of Personal Property.

=Brayton, Alembert Winthrop.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A mathematician of Indianapolis. Birds of Indiana; Mammals of Ohio; Fishes of the Southern Allegheny Region.

=Brearley, William Henry.= _Mch._, 1846- ----. A journalist of Detroit, and subsequently of New York city. Recollections of the East Tennessee Campaign; Wanted, a Copyist; Leading Events of the American Revolution; King Washington (with A. Skeel, _infra_). _Lip._

=Breckenridge, John.= _Ky._, 1797-1841. A once noted Presbyterian clergyman. Roman Catholic Controversy (1836).

=Brent, Charles Henry.= _Ont._, 1862- ----. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Philippines. With God in the World; The Consolations of the Cross; With God in the Nation; With God in the Creed. _Lgs._

=Brent, Henry Johnson.= _D. C._, 1811-1880. A New York littérateur who founded the Knickerbocker Magazine with Lewis Gaylord Clark (page 63). Among his writings are Life almost Alone, a novel; Was it a Ghost?

=Brevoort, James Carson.= _N. Y._, 1818-1887. A civil engineer of New York city. Verrazano the Navigator.

=Brewer, Daniel Chauncey.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. A Boston lawyer who has published Madeleine, a Poem in Fragments.

=Brewer, David Josiah.= _A. M._, 1837- ----. An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1889. The Pew to the Pulpit; The Twentieth Century from Another View Point; American Citizenship. _Rev. Scr._

=Brewster, Anne M---- Hampton.= _Pa._, 1818-1892. A writer whose later life was passed in Rome. Compensation, or Always a Future; St. Martin’s Summer.

=Brewster, Charles Warren.= _N. H._, 1812-1868. A journalist of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Fifty Years in a Printing Office; Rambles about Portsmouth.

=Brewster, Chauncey Bunce.= _Ct._, 1848- ----. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. Key of Life: Good Friday Addresses.

=Brewster, Frederick Carroll.= _Pa._, 1825-1898. A jurist of Philadelphia, attorney-general of his state in 1869. Equity Practice in Pennsylvania; Treatise on Practice in the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas; Molière in Outline; Life and Novels of Benjamin Disraeli.

=Bridge, Horatio.= _Me._, 1806-1893. A United States naval officer. Journal of an African Cruiser.

=Bridge, Norman.= _Vt._, 1844- ----. A physician long resident in Chicago, but more recently in Pasadena, California. The Penalties of Taste and Other Essays; The Rewards of Taste; Lectures on Tuberculosis. _S._

=Bridgman, Elijah Cole.= _Ms._, 1801-1861. A missionary to China. Chrestomathy in Canton Dialect, the first practical manual of that dialect prepared in China.

=Bridgman, Frederic Arthur.= _Al._, 1847- ----. A noted painter of Oriental subjects. Winters in Algeria; Anarchy in Art; The Idol and the Ideal.

=Bridgman, Marcus Fayette.= _Vt._, 1824-1899. A physician and verse-writer of Boston. Mosaics; Under the Pine; Tales at the Manse.

=Briggs, LeBaron Russell.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. A professor of English at Harvard University from 1885, dean of the University from 1891, and president of Radcliffe College from 1903. Original Charades; School, College, and Character; Routine and Ideals. _Hou. Scr._

=Brigham, Gershom Nelson.= _Vt._, 1820-1886. A homœopathic physician of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Catarrhal Diseases; Pulmonary Consumption; Harvest Moon, a volume of verse.

=Brigham, Mrs. Sarah J---- [Lathbury].= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A writer and illustrator for children. The Pleasant Land of Play; Under Blue Skies.

=Brigham, Sarah Prentice.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A writer for young people. Alice Field; The Stolen Gold Piece; The Forged Letter and Other Stories.

=Brimmer, Martin.= _Ms._, 1829-1896. A once prominent citizen of Boston. Egypt: Three Essays on the History, Religion, and Art of Ancient Egypt. _Hou._

=Brine, Mrs. Mary D[ow] [Northam].= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A popular New York city writer of juvenile and other works, mainly in verse, among which Grandma’s Attic Treasures is best known. Others are Grandma’s Memories; Aunt Patience; The Mother’s Song; From Gold to Gray; Bessie and Bee; Bessie the Cash Girl; My Boy and I. _Cas. Dut. Meth._

=Briscoe, Margaret Sutton.= _See Hopkins, Mrs. Margaret._

=Bristol, Frank Milton.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Methodist clergyman, long prominent in Chicago. Providential Epochs; The Ministry of Art; Shakespeare and America.

=Brittan, Harriette G----.= 1823-1897. A missionary in India. Scenes and Incidents of Every-day Life in Africa; Kardoo, the Hindoo girl; Shoshie, the Indian Zenana Teacher; A Woman’s Talks about India.

=Brocklesby, John.= _E._, 1811-1889. An educator, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Trinity College, 1842-73, and of astronomy and natural philosophy, 1873-84. Elements of Meteorology; Views of the Microscopic World; Elements of Physical Geography; The Amateur Microscopist.

=Bronson, Walter Cochrane.= _Ms._, 1862- ----. A professor of literature at Brown University from 1892. A Short History of American Literature. _He._

=Brooks, Francis.= _Tn._, 1867-1898. Margins; Complete Poems.

=Brooks, Fred Emerson.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A popular writer of humorous verse. Pickett’s Charge and Other Poems; Old Ace and Other Poems.

=Brooks, Geraldine.= _Pa._, 1875- ----. Daughter of E. S. Brooks (page 38). A writer of New York city. Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days; Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic; Romances of Colonial Days. _Cr._

=Brooks, Henry S----.= _E._, 183- - ----. A littérateur of New York city. The California Mountaineer; Doña Paula’s Treasure; A Catastrophe in Bohemia, and Other Stories.

=Brooks, Hildegard.= _Sxy._, 1875- ----. A novelist of Newburgh, New York. Without a Warrant; The Master of Caxton; Daughters of Desperation. _Scr._

=Brooks, John Graham.= _N. H._, 1846- ----. A noted lecturer on economics, residing in Cambridge. The Social Unrest. _Mac._

=Brower, Jacob Vradenburg.= _Mch._, 1844- ----. A Minnesota explorer. The Mississippi River and its Utmost Source; Prehistoric Man at the Head Waters of the Mississippi; The Missouri River and its Sources; Quivira; Harakey; Mille Lac; Minnesota: Discovery of its Area, 1541-1665.

=Brown, Abbie Farwell.= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A Boston writer for young people. A Pocketful of Posies; In the Days of Giants; The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts; The Lonesomest Doll; The Curious Book of Birds; The Flower Princess. _Hou._

=Brown, Calvin Smith.= _Tn._, 1866- ----. An instructor in English in Rutgers College from 1901. The Later English Drama.

=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= _W. Va._, 1862- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Oakland, California. Two Parables; The Main Points. _Rev._

=Brown, Elmer Ellsworth.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A professor of education in the University of California. The Making of Our Middle Schools. _Lgs._

=Brown, Ernest William.= _E._, 1866- ----. A professor of applied mathematics at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. Treatise on the Lunar Theory. _Mac._

=Brown, Glenn.= _Va._, 1854- ----. An architect of Washington city. Treatise on Water Closets; Healthy Foundations for Houses; History of the United States Capitol; European and Japanese Gardens.

=Brown, Howard Nicholson.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, rector of King’s Chapel from 1895. The Spiritual Life; Sunday Stories; Sermons in King’s Chapel.

=Brown, Hubert William.= 18-- - ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, for many years a missionary in Mexico. Latin America. _Rev._

=Brown, John Howard.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A Boston writer who has edited the Cyclopædia of American Biography. American Naval Heroes.

=Brown, John Newton.= _Ct._, 1803-1868. A Baptist clergyman who edited an Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge and was the author of Memorials of Baptist Martyrs; Poems; The New Hampshire Confession.

=Brown, Joseph Brownlee.= _S. C._, 1824-1888. A thinker of transcendental tendencies, best remembered by his short poem, The Cry of the Ten Thousand.

=Brown, Katherine Louise.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. An educator of Boston. Little People; The Plant Baby and its Friends; Alice and Tom.

=Brown, Marshall Stewart.= _N. H._, 1870- ----. A professor of history and political science in New York University. Epoch-Making Papers in United States History; History of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.

=Brown, Moses True.= _N. H._, 1827-1900. An elocutionist, long resident in Boston. The Synthetic Philosophy of Expression. _Hou._

=Brown, Ray.= _Ct._, 1865- ----. An illustrator of New York city. Book of Child’s Songs; Stage Lyrics; American Ships and Sailors. _Do._

=Brown, Solyman.= _Ct._, 1790-1876. A Swedenborgian minister of New York city. Essay on American Poetry (1814); Dentologia; Dental Hygeia.

=Brown, William Adams.= _N. Y._, 1865- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of systematic theology in Union Theological Seminary from 1898. Musical Instruments and Their Homes; The Essence of Christianity. _Do. Scr._

=Brown, William Garrott.= _Al._, 1868- ----. A librarian of Cambridge. A Short Life of Andrew Jackson; a similar Life of Stephen A. Douglas; The Lower South in American History; A History of Alabama; A Gentleman of the South; The Foe of Compromise, and Other Essays; The History of the United States since the Civil War; Selden: a Memory of the Black Belt; Golf. _Hou. Mac._

=Brown, William Montgomery.= _O._, 1855- ----. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Arkansas. The Church for Americans. _Wh._

=Browne, Causten.= _D. C._, 1828- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Treatise on the Construction of the Statute of Frauds. _Lit._

=Browne, George Waldo.= _N. H._, 1851- ----. A writer for young people who has published under his own name, A Daughter of Maryland; The Young Gunbearer; Two American Boys in Hawaii; The Hero of the Hills; The Paradise of the Pacific; The Hawaiian Islands; The Pearl of the Orient; The Philippine Islands, and other works; and under the pseudonym “Victor Saint Clair,” For Home and Honor; Zip the Acrobat; Break o’ Day Boys, and other juveniles. _Est. Pa._

=Brownson, Henry Francis.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. Son of O. A. Brownson (page 41). A lawyer of Detroit who served in the Federal army during the Civil War. He is the author of a Life of Orestes A. Brownson; Equality and Democracy; Faith and Science; and of a translation of Balme’s Fundamental Philosophy.

=Bruce, Henry [Goodnow].= 18-- - ----. An historical writer. James Edward Oglethorpe and the Founding of the Georgia Colony; Samuel Houston and the Annexation of Texas. _Do._

=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= _Va._, 1856- ----. An historical writer of Richmond, Virginia. The Plantation Negro as a Freeman; The Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century; Short History of the United States. _Am. Mac. Put._

=Bruce, Saunders Dewees.= _Ky._, 1825-1902. A New York journalist, editor of Turf, Field, and Farm from 1866. The American Stud Book; Horse-Breeder’s Guide; The Thoroughbred Horse.

=Brush, George Jarvis.= _L. I._, 1831- ----. A mineralogist, professor of metallurgy in the Scientific School of Yale University. A Manual of Determinative Mineralogy.

=Bryan, William Jennings.= _Il._, 1860- ----. A noted politician of Lincoln, Nebraska, prominent in 1896 and 1900 as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. The First Battle: a Story of the Campaign of 1896.

=Bryant, Anna Burnham.= _N. H._, 186- - ----. A writer of juvenile books, among which are Fussbudgett’s Folks; Wellspring Series; Holly Berry Series; The Christmas Cat.

=Buck, Albert Henry.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. Son of Gurdon Buck (page 42). A New York physician. Diseases of the Ear; Vest-pocket Medical Dictionary.

=Buck, Jirah Dewey.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A homœopathic physician of Cincinnati. A Study of Man; Mystic Masonry; Paracelsus and Other Essays; Nature and Aim of Theosophy; Why I Am a Theosophist. _Clke._

=Buckalew, Charles Rollin.= _Pa._, 1821-1899. A prominent United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Proportional Representation; An Examination of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.

=Buckham, James.= _Vt._, 1858- ----. The Heart of Life, a book of verse; Where Town and Country Meet.

=Buehler, Huber Gray.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. An educator at Lakeville, Connecticut. Practical Exercises in English; Modern English Grammar.

=Buel, Clarence Clough.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. An assistant editor of the Century Magazine. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.

=Buel, James William.= _Il._, 1849- ----. An author of Philadelphia. Russian Nihilism and Exile Life in Siberia; The World’s Wonders; Sea and Land; The Beautiful Story; The Living World; The Story of Man; Heroes of the Dark Continent; America’s Wonderlands; The Magic City; Buel’s Manual of Self-Help; Beautiful Paris; The Great Operas; Great Achievements of the Century; Hero Tales.

=Buell, Augustus C----.= _N. Y._, 1846-1904. A civil engineer of note. Paul Jones, a biography; Life of William Penn; History of Andrew Jackson; Sir William Johnson. _Ap. Scr._

=Buell, Marcus Darius.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Methodist theologian, professor at Boston University from 1884. Studies in the Greek Text of the Gospel of Saint Mark.

=Bugg, Lelia Hardin.= _Mo._, 18-- - ----. A Roman Catholic writer of Wichita, Kansas. The People of Our Parish; The Correct Thing for Catholics; Orchids, a novel; The Prodigal’s Daughter; A Lady. _Mar._

=Bulkeley, Lucius Duncan.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A physician of New York city. Analysis of Eight Thousand Cases of Skin Diseases; Acne and its Treatment; Syphilis in the Innocent; Manual of Diseases of the Skin; Eczema and its Treatment.

=Bull, Charles Stedman.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. A noted oculist. Choroditis Following Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; Influenza of the Fifth Nerve in Iritis and Choroditis; Symptomatology and Pathology of Intercranial Tumours.

=Bull, Mrs. Sara Chapman [Thorp].= 1850- ----. In 1870 she was married to Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian violinist, and in 1882 she wrote his life. _Hou._

=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= _Ms._, 1869- ----. An assistant professor in economics at Harvard University. Introduction to the Study of Economics; Finances of the United States from 1775 to 1789; Essay on the Monetary History of the United States. _Mac._

=Bumpus, Hermon Carey.= _Me._, 1862- ----. A professor of comparative anatomy in Brown University from 1892. A Laboratory Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy.

=Buntline, Ned.= _See Judson, Edward_ (page 214).

=Burdick, Francis Marion.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A professor of law at Columbia University from 1891. Cases on Torts; Cases on Sales; The Law of Sales; Cases on Partnership; The Law of Partnership. _Lit._

=Burgess, [Frank] Gelett.= _Ms._, 1866- ----. A humorous writer of Boston, editor of The Lark at San Francisco, 1895-97, and subsequently of other humorous periodicals. Viviette, or the Memoirs of the Romance Association; Goop Babies: a Manual of Instruction for Polite Infants; The Lively City o’ Ligg; The Burgess Nonsense Book; A Gage of Youth; The Picaroons (with T. Irwin); The Reign of Queen Isyl. _Cent. Dou. Scr. Sm. Sto._

=Burkett, Charles William.= _O._, 1873- ----. A professor of agriculture in the New Hampshire Agricultural College. History of Ohio Agriculture; Feeding Farm Animals; Agriculture for Beginners (joint author). _Gi._

=Burnham, Benjamin Franklin.= _Vt._, 1831- ----. A Boston jurist. Leading in Law and Curious in Court; The Life of Lives; Elsmere Elsewhere; Records of Jesus Reviewed.

=Burnham, Sarah Maria.= _Vt._, 1818-1901. An educator who taught in the schools of Cambridge, 1843-79. The Struggles of the Nations; Pleasant Memories of Foreign Travel; Roman Stories in the Time of Claudius I.; Precious Stones in Natural History and Literature; The History and Uses of Limestones and Marbles; Biographical Sketches of Some Ancient People.

=Burr, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1819- ----. A stenographer of Washington city. Self-Contradictions of the Bible; Revelations of Antichrist.

=Burrell, David James.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. The Religions of the World; Hints and Helps; The Gospel of Gladness; The Morning Cometh; The Religion of the Future; The Early Church; The Wondrous Cross; God and the People; The Spirit of the Age; For Christ’s Crown; The Golden Passional; The Unaccountable Man and Other Sermons; The Wonderful Teacher; The Church in the Fort; The Gospel of Certainty.

=Burrill, Thomas Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. A naturalist, vice-president of the University of Illinois from 1882. The Bacteria; Uredinæ, or Parasitic Fungi of Illinois.

=Burroughs, Stephen.= _N. H._, 1765-1840. A once famous adventurer whose Memoirs of My Own Life (1811) were long popular. In his later years he was a successful and beloved educator in Canada.

=Burton, Nathaniel Judson.= _Ct._, 1824-1887. A Congregational clergyman whose son, R. E. Burton, is mentioned on page 46. In Pulpit and Parish: Yale Lectures on Preaching, and Other Writings. _C. P. S._

=Burton, Theodore Elijah.= _O._, 1851- ----. A lawyer of Cleveland, member of Congress, 1889-91, and from 1895. Financial Crises and Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression. _Ap._

=Busey, Samuel Clagett.= _Md._, 1823- ----. A Washington physician. Acquired Forms; Lymph Channels; Reminiscences; A Souvenir; Pictures of the City of Washington in the Past.

=Butler, Amos William.= _Ind._, 1860- ----. A naturalist of Indianapolis. The Birds of Indiana.

=Butler, Benjamin Franklin.= _N. H._, 1818-1893. A noted lawyer and politician of Lowell, Massachusetts, major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. He published his Autobiography and Reminiscences in 1892.

=Butler, Charles Henry.= 1859- ----. Son of W. A. Butler (page 47). A lawyer of New York city. The Voice of the Nation; Our Relations with Spain; Freedom of Private Property on the Sea; Cuba Must be Free; Treaty-Making Power of the United States.

=Butler, Howard Crosby.= _N. Y._, 1872- ----. Scotland’s Ruined Abbeys; The Story of Athens; Architecture and Other Arts of Syria. _Cas. Cent. Mac._

=Butler, James Davie.= _Vt._, 1815- ----. A Wisconsin educator, in earlier life a Congregational clergyman, who has published many monographs of antiquarian and historical interest.

=Butler, William Morris.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A physician of New York city. Home Care for the Insane.

=Butler, William Orlando.= _Ky._, 1791-1880. A soldier and politician. The Boatman’s Horn and Other Poems. _See Life by Blair_, 1848.

=Butts, Edmund Luther.= _Min._, 1868- ----. An army officer who has published a Manual of Physical Training for the United States Army. _Ap._

=Byford, Henry Turman.= _Ind._, 1853- ----. A surgeon of Chicago. Manual of Gynecology; Diseases of Women (with W. H. Byford, page 48); American Text Book of Gynecology.

=Byrne, Austin Thomas.= _Me._, 1859- ----. A civil engineer. Highway Construction; Inspection of Materials and Workmanship Employed in Construction. _Wil._

=Byrne, William.= _I._, 1836- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman, vicar-general of the archdiocese of Boston. Catholic Doctrine; Devout Manual.

=Byrum, Enoch Edwin.= _Ind._, 1861- ----. A clergyman of the Church of God denomination who has written The Secret of Salvation; Divine Healing; The Boy’s Companion; The Great Physician, and other works.